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Faculty and Staff

Physicist receives NSF Career award and more

Bo Sun, associate professor of physics, receives prestigious National Science Foundation Early CAREER Award of $740K.

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Students

Goldwater scholar is “a physicist to his fingertips”

Honors physics and mathematics student Ryan Tollefsen received a 2019 Goldwater award. He was one of four OSU students selected for the prestigious award.

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Students

Physics, mathematics and biochemistry students named Goldwater Scholars

College of Science launches three of four OSU winners of the prestigious 2019 Goldwater Scholarship.

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Faculty and Staff

Celebrating excellence: 2019 teaching and advising awards

Inspirational teachers and advisors honored at the Winter 2019 Teaching and Advising Awards in the College of Science.

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Faculty and Staff

Physicist receives innovation award for cancer research

Physicist Bo Sun received the College of Science’s Science Research and Innovation Seed award that supports transformative science research.

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Alumni and Friends

Alumnus Warren Washington to receive prestigious Tyler Prize for pioneering climate studies

Pioneering climate scientist and alumnus Warren Washington is a co-recipient of the 2019 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, often referred to as the Nobel Prize for the Environment.

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Faculty and Staff

Recognizing research and administrative excellence

Congratulations to these science faculty and administrators who received 2018 Faculty and Staff Awards for administrative and research excellence!

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Physics

Physicist leads $2.2 million effort to improve physics programs and instruction

Physicist David Craig will lead a five-year, multimillion dollar effort to help physics departments at colleges nationwide improve their programs.

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Faculty and Staff

Faculty excellence: Promotions and tenure 2018

The College of Science congratulates 20 faculty on receiving promotions and/or tenure for the 2017-18 academic year.

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Faculty and Staff

Serving science and OSU for more than 25 years

Twelve science faculty are being honored for 25 or more years of service to the OSU at its 25 Year Club Dinner on May 22, 2018.

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Physics

OSU Physics receives national award for undergraduate education

The Department of Physics is one of three universities to receive a national award for improving undergraduate physics education in 2018.